(18-04-12) Women with high cholesterol live longer, have fewer heart attacks and strokes

by Elizabeth Walling


(NaturalNews) If the diagnosis of high cholesterol sounds like a death
sentence to your ears, you may be the victim of cholesterol propaganda. It's
not uncommon to believe that lower is better when it comes to cholesterol, but
new research shows otherwise. In fact, a recent study in Norway says women with
high cholesterol live longer and suffer from fewer heart attacks and strokes
than those with lower cholesterol.

Can High Cholesterol Save Your Life?
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology looked at
52,087 individuals between the ages of 20 and 74. After adjusting for factors
like age, smoking and blood pressure, researchers found women with high
cholesterol (more than 270 mg/dl) had a 28 percent lower mortality risk than
women with low cholesterol (under 193 mg/dl). Risk for heart disease, cardiac
arrest and stroke also declined as cholesterol levels rose.

The researchers involved in the study admit this contradicts commonly accepted
beliefs about cholesterol. They say current guideline information is misleading
because the role of cholesterol in heart disease is overestimated.

These results fly in the face of what most of us have been told about
cholesterol. Our misconceptions about cholesterol may in fact be endangering
countless lives. For instance, millions of people are prescribed statin drugs
to lower their cholesterol levels, believing that this will save their lives.
Not only do statin drugs come with a plethora of dangerous side effects, but
now the very premise of their existence is also brought into question.

Our focus on lowering cholesterol to prevent heart disease and mortality is
misplaced. It also fails to serve in the best interest of our health and
wellness. In fact, the dogmatic belief that cholesterol must be lowered appears
to best serve pharmaceutical companies, which profit from cholesterol-lowering
drugs.

Better results will be achieved when we develop a more well-rounded focus on
other risks for heart disease, which include stress, toxins, a sedentary
lifestyle and a poor diet. As an added bonus, these factors aren't treated with
dangerous pharmaceutical drugs, but with simple, healthful lifestyle changes.

Sources for this article include:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01767.x/p...

http://anthonycolpo.com/?p=2341

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21951982

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